In a message dated 1/3/2003 8:26:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, ajfoster@pacbell.net writes: > If I remember what my mother > told me correctly, he had a falling out with his eldest son and it looks > like the father cut George Jr., completely. Richard Martin was "presented by the grand jury at the Salisbury Court, 1669, for abusing his father and throwing him down, taking away his clothes and holding up an axe against him." The court found Richard guilty and he was sentenced to be "whipped ten stripes." (The American Genealogist, Oct. 1982, David L. Greene) The following is quoted from an article by David L. Greene in The American Genealogist listing the children of George and Susanna Martin. I'm only including the part about George Martin, Jr. "iii. George, b. 21 8m (Oct.) 1648; d. probably by 19 Jan. 1683/4 when his father failed to mention him in his will, a document that leaves token sums to children that had apparently already received their portions. He may have been living when his father sued Thomas Sargent by writ dated 8 April 1669 "for saying that his son Gorge Marttin was a bastard and that Richard was Goodwife Martin's imp (R&F 4:129). His father was called "senior" when he was mentioned in a 1679 deposition, according to the index to colony and state court records at the Suffolk Co. Courthouse (I have not examined the document itself, which is in File #1763). He was most certainly not, as has been claimed, George Martin of Ipswich. See my paper on the latter in TAG 56:155-159. That discussion cites a chart prepared in 1921 by Charles Shepard, now of Rochester, N. Y., as the earliest to conclude that George Martin of Ipswich was identical with George (2) Martin of Amesbury. Since that article appeared, Mr. Shepard has courteously informed me that after he had prepared the chart, he too had concluded that the Georges were not identical and that the Ipswich George was the one who had immigrated to MA in 1679 on the Hannah and Elizabeth, a probability that I discussed too hesitantly in my paper." Bonnie Johnson 8th great granddaughter of Susanna and George Martin